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On Saint Helena, napoleon one time almost sank into quicksand of all things (it was an adult problem napoleon should have been aware of I guess)

He was helped out and cracked a joke about how if he had sunk, people would say he disappeared back to hell

But actually. That would’ve been the funniest ending to Napoleon’s story, especially if no one in his retinue knew/shared what happened to him.

Napoleon is sent to an island in the middle of nowhere, supposedly inescapable, and one day just…disappears. Nobody knows what happened to him.

The conspiracy theories would keep podcasters in money to this day. Did Napoleon actually escape and live in anonymity? Did his captors quietly assassinate him? Alien abduction, one man rapture, the discourse would rage

And meanwhile a middle aged man just stumbled into quicksand. We’d never know.

I wonder how it would’ve affected his legend…

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Happy Birthday Arno

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Gourgaud celebrates the fourth anniversary of saving Napoleon’s life by… being yelled at by Napoleon after defending Ney.

Thursday, 29 (January 1818) – It’s the anniversary of the day when, in 1814, in the combat at Brienne, I saved the Emperor from a lance in the back.

Later that evening, Napoleon talks about Marshal Brune, General Moreau, and General Lecourbe, before turning to Ney (who had served under Moreau and Lecourbe).

[Napoleon] I was wrong not to employ Lecourbe sooner, he would have been well trained for my system and would have been very useful to me. Very brave, he was worth more than Ney; but I felt him my enemy and I was afraid. (…) Ney had no mind, or moral courage. He was good for uplifting his troops on a battlefield, but I shouldn’t have named him Marshal of France; he had, as Caffarelli said of him, merely all the probity and courage of a hussar: I should have left him a general of division. In 1815, had such effrontery ever been seen! In his proclamation, he disposes of the throne of France. I even had trouble, when I saw him, in containing myself on this subject… Ney only came to me when he saw all his regiments abandoning him. It was to be rewarded, he had lost his head, he was an oddball. It’s the same thing that made him say nonsense to the Chamber of Peers. No more army and all is lost! He was shot for coming to me: he should’ve been shot for not having come sooner.

I take his defense, not because of his conduct, but as a soldier; he is the bravest man I have ever seen; His Majesty then attacks me and I shut up. At 8:30 the Emperor retires, I lead Bertrand home and beg him to ask for permission for me to leave Saint Helena.

—Gaspard Gourgaud, Sainte-Hélène, journal inédit de 1815 à 1818.

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Congratulations, you are the Marshal.

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Talleyrand and Fouché because I'm planning on making a project about them (fanzine, mostly comic but also some small bits of prose) but I don't have the time right now so I'm currently just rotating them in my brain

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Hands of Murat

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Charles Meynier, Marshal Ney gives back to the soldiers of the 76th line Regiment their standards recovered at the Inspruck arsenal, 7 November 1805, 1808. (Details)

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Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). The Death of Marshall Ney. 1868. Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 101.6 cm. Sheffield, Graves Art Gallery.

At nine o'clock precisely, the marshal, attended by his confessor, stepped into the carriage prepared for their reception, which drove across the garden on the Luxembourg, to the grand alley leading to the observatory, the place appointed for his execution. A picket of veterans, sixty strong, awaited his arrival. The marshal, having descended from the carriage, faced his executioners, and after taking off his hat with his left hand, and placing his right hand on his breast, he exclaimed with a loud and unfaultering voice—" Comrades, straight at the heart— fire.“ The officer gave the signal at the same moment with his sword, and he fell dead without a struggle. Twelve balls had taken effect; three of them in the head. There were but few persons present, for the populace, believing that the execution would take place on the plain of Crenelle, where Labedoyere was shot, had repaired thither.

- Edward Baines. History of the Wars of the French Revolution. Vol. II. 1817.

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DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975) dir. Sidney Lumet AL PACINO as Sonny Wortzik JOHN CAZALE as Sal Naturile

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HALOOO I love u sm you so tasty can you draw... marshall ney... pls 💙🤍❤️

i should feel guilty rarely drawing him dawg😪💔 ft. napoleon getting his first tat

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The Morning of The Battle of Waterloo: the French Await Napoléon's Order

By Ernest Crofts

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One man army.

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Fouché goes Royalist hunting

(from Carême ep. 6)

The dramatic music! The gestures!! This is peak cinema!!! ...

Anyway, now some gifs that, again, I simply couldn't not do